Pylon of the Month
All about electricity pylons and transmission networks
Category: Literature
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The first pylon of 2021 comes from Boars Hill just outside Oxford and was sent to me by a friend after a walk with his wife during the recent cold snap. The hoar frost on the hedge and the fog1 made for a wonderfully atmospheric scene that can surely only have been enhanced by the pylon's…
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December's pylon of the month is another first for the blog as the observant amongst you will already have spotted. It is an absence of pylon or a pylon of the imagination, at least in the picture above. I spotted it on Twitter recently where it was posted by @geospacedman with the following description: Contrails?…
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November was another pylonless month and with December rushing by, I decided that action had to be taken to ensure that two fallow months in succession didn't come to pass. A recent email inspired this month's post: Hello, I wrote a poem about a pylon and was wondering if you would like to feature it…
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This month we have a Scottish pylon from Loch Errochty, a man made freshwater loch in Perth and Kinross. The pylons are on the Beauly to Denny power line which brings power from renewable sources in the north of Scotland to consumers further south. It was (and remains) very controversial and the Herald Scotland reported…
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With my summer holiday (in Turkey) looming and the usual 'holiday pylon' to follow in August, I thought that I would choose a UK pylon for July. I have quite a backlog of submissions from fans of the website, but this rather splendid one from Essex caught me eye as I trawled back through…
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Regular readers of this blog are probably looking at this month's pylon and wondering what is going on, but for the first pylon of 2014 I thought that it would be appropriate to feature the first artist to recognise the significance of the pylon. The picture is by Tristram Hillier and was painted in 1933.…
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Sometimes, a month passes so quickly that I never get around to posting a new pylon. As a result I often get e-mails reminding me to update the blog (really I do; you know who you are…..). Looking back through the archives, however, I was shocked to see that there has never been a December…
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This month's Pylon is different for all kinds of reasons as I am sure all but the most unobservant of readers will have already have spotted. After quite a few years of real pylons that you could actually go and visit if you were so inclined, that might prove more diffcult this month. I have…
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I've been meaning to feature a pylon like this one ever since reading Alan de Botton's splendid book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work'. It has a chapter on electricity transmission and pylons and in it, he has this to say about pylons: "In different species, I noted varieties of modesty or arrogance, honesty or…
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Tweet http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js After a break from pylons in July, Pylon of the Month is back again and as summer is with us it is time for the pylon picture taken on my holidays. This year, it comes from Greece and it was taken in the village of Agios Floros just north of Kalamata (famous for its…
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